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I grew up seeing handwritten notes as the best expression of love. My mom often   36   small square papers on the bed for me to find. Sometimes it was just a smiley   37    other times she simply wrote the words “love you”   38   ordinary ballpoint pen but it was more than enough.

Starting in elementary school my mom   39   I write notes to my grandma who lived a few hours away. Grandma   40   wrote back. The excitement I felt when I looked in the   41   and saw a letter in my grandma’s shaky letters never   42  . By studying her handwriting I could almost   43   how she’d been feeling that day. Those notes are now treasures.

The words “ You make me   44    ” from my dad when I got my first prize and birthday notes from friends are all lifelines I can’t bear to   45  .

However my greatest lifelines came from my daughter Avery. One day I put a yellow note on her   46   not realizing there was a blank one   47   to it. When I cleaned out her lunch box that night the number of my notes had   48  . I cried when I saw she’d written the same thing as me.

“I love you Avery.”

I reached up and stuck my daughter’s   49   on the cabinet where the sandwich bread was stored as a source of daily   50  . Then later another in my clothes closet where I got   51  and another on the bathroom mirror where I brushed my   52  .

“ I love you . I will love you for my whole life.”

Until today my daughter still   53   posts lifelines to me. Now they are not so much for encouragement   54   they are reminders — reminders that time is flying.

Because the untraditional spelling has become   55   . Letters are no longer gigantic（巨大的） but rather small and dainty（优美的）. But the love the love is still there.

36. A. carried          B. left              C. covered           D. collected

37. A. story            B. diary             C. sign              D. face

38. A. in               B. on                C. without           D. at

39. A. allowed          B. witnessed         C. requested         D. prevented

40. A. hardly           B. always            C. gradually         D. never

41. A. mailbox          B. pocket            C. parcel            D. basket

42. A. changed          B. grew              C. fell              D. disappeared

43. A. predict          B. tell              C. explain           D. doubt

44. A. proud            B. famous            C. confident         D. surprised

45. A. sort out         B. pack up           C. throw away        D. take up

46. A. coat             B. sandwich          C. schoolbag         D. pencil-box

47. A. referred         B. approached        C. belonged          D. attached

48. A. gone             B. increased         C. worked            D. moved

49. A. picture          B. love              C. hope              D. note

50. A. duty             B. encouragement     C. schedule          D. motto

51. A. dressed          B. raised            C. prepared          D. arranged

52. A. shoes            B. floors            C. teeth             D. walls

53. A. carefully        B. generally         C. regularly         D. timely

54. A. as if            B. even if           C. although          D. as

55. A. traditional      B. special           C. funny             D. valuable

Answer 1

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